

Howl
Visit website6.5/10 • 184
2010-08-26 • 1h 24m
The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation.
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
- Directors
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- Writters
- Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
- Editors
- Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein, Jake Pushinsky

Howl
Visit website2010-08-26 • 1h 24m
6.5/10 • 184
The Obscenity Trial That Started a Revolution. The Poem That Rocked a Generation.
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
- Directors
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- Writters
- Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
- Editors
- Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein, Jake Pushinsky
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsJames Franco
Allen Ginsberg
Todd Rotondi
Jack Kerouac
Jon Prescott
Neal Cassady
Aaron Tveit
Peter Orlovsky
David Strathairn
Ralph McIntosh
Jon Hamm
Jake Ehrlich
Andrew Rogers
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Bob Balaban
Judge Clayton Horn
Mary-Louise Parker
Gail Potter
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $5,000,000.00
- Revenue
- $1,183,258.00
- Keywords
- freedompoetryliteraturepsychiatric hospitalmale homosexualitycounter-culture1950sgay theme